Derrick
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ID: D-FINK-OP

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I architect software that 30,000 people quietly rely on. As a Senior Software Engineer at Boise State University, I've shipped everything from mission-critical public directories to campus-wide AI infrastructure.

Thirteen years on the same team means living with my own architectural decisions, debugging my own assumptions, and being the one on call when systems degrade. I don't build overengineered prototypes and move on—I ship production systems, and I keep them running.

Recently, my three-person team deployed a multi-LLM AI platform on AWS, reducing per-user costs by 80%. That is the work I optimize for: small teams, real stakes, and high-availability systems.